RICHARD GLAZER DANAY

- RICHARD GLAZER DANAY -

Kahnawake Mohawk, 1942—

Richard Glazer Danay (Kahnawake Mohawk) was raised in a vibrant urban environment in the Mohawk neighborhood on Coney Island, New York. Today, Danay lives and works in Los Angeles. This bifurcated cultural experience has richly infused his work. Danay is internationally acclaimed for both his captivating paintings and thought-provoking assemblage sculptures. 

Danay is a highly regarded and passionate educator who taught fine art and American Indian studies at California State University at Long Beach for many years. The generosity of his gifts has been shared widely. The artist’s work reflects the complexity of his upbringing. From New York to Los Angeles, his work as an ironworker, military service in the US Army, work in the nightclubs along the Sunset Strip and ancestry all inform his practice. The result is a unique construction of pop and postmodernist aesthetics. Glazer Danay's creations become a visual dialogue that fuses the intersection of culture, historical references, and personal narratives.

Richard Glazer Danay’s participation in acclaimed exhibitions and events like the 1999 Venice Biennale and the 1994 Havana Biennial further solidifies his reputation as an influential artist with a global impact. Danay’s work has been included in major group exhibitions at the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Museum of Arts and Design, the Heard Museum, the Autry Museum, the Iroquois Indian Museum, and the Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, among many others. 

Richard Glazer Danay's work is included in many prominent collections and exhibitions such as the British Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, San Diego Museum of Art, the Skirball Museum and Cultural Center, Peabody Essex Museum, Carnegie Museum of Art, Vienna's Museum fur Völkerkunde, the Heard Museum, the Autry Museum and the Philbrook Museum, among other institutions.